Snake Thomason revised

 

Removed for upcoming publication in Wild West History Association Journal

W. W. “Snake” Thomason

by Wayne Pounds

W. W. Thomason was a well-known revenue agent working in Southeastern Oklahoma between the years 1910 and 1931. The newspapers of the day refer to him under various titles: Special Enforcement Officer, Indian Enforcement Agent, Deputy U. S. Marshal, Supervisor of Federal Prohibition, Federal Officer in the Indian Service, and more colloquially “dry agent.” Among the best known gang-buster exploits of Thomason and his deputies were the shutting down of thirty stills in two weeks, and the dubious killing of two farmers in Pottawatomie County, both veterans of World War I. 

W. W. Thomason, 1907